Just wondering what folks are doing for making a decesion for View 4.5 (yeah, I know it just came out) or zendesktop. I was at VMWorld and I am drinking the View cool-aid.

I know in the past vdi could deploy thousands of vdi machines with flexclone, thin provisioning, etc on Netapps.

We have a 6040 with a PAM card and we use ESX 4.x over FC on it (DOT7.3.2x). No flexclone license on it,but I will on a 6080 (DOT 7.3.2.x) with a PAMII card.

Couple questions.

Are the dedupe numbers the same for both solutions (VM vs Citrix) ?

Is the solution a moot point, or would one be better from a performance, and or dedupe savings perspective? Most likely we will have the storage between 2 HA heads, so we try to design redundancy as much as possible.

I was hoping to serve up 2000 users on a SAS fully populated shelf on a 6040 and another shelf on a 6080 for 2k users each.

These are just rough numbers and I will read the best practices for each solution. Just looking for any feedback.